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Healthy People 2010 - With Annotations
Chapter 15
Injury and Violence Prevention
Lead Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Goal: Reduce injuries, disabilities, and deaths due to unintentional injuries and violence.
15-37. Reduce physical assaults.
Target: 25.5 physical assaults per 1,000 persons aged 12 years older.
Baseline: 31.1 physical assaults per 1,000 persons aged 12 years and older in 1998.
Target setting method: Better than the best.
Data source: National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics (rates per 1,000).
| Persons Aged 12 Years and Older, 1998 | Physical Assaults Rate per 1,000 |
| TOTAL | 31.1 |
| Race and ethnicity | |
| American Indian or Alaska Native | DSU |
| Asian or Pacific Islander | DSU |
| Asian | DNC |
| Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander | DNC |
| Black or African American | 33.7 |
| White | 31.1 |
| Hispanic or Latino | 25.6 |
| Not Hispanic or Latino | 31.5 |
| Black or African American | DNA |
| White | DNA |
| Gender | |
| Female | 24.3 |
| Male | 38.3 |
| Select populations | |
| Adolescents aged 12 to 15 years |
71.2 |
| Adolescents aged 16 to 19 years |
74.7 |
| Young adults aged 20 to 24 years |
54.8 |
DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.
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Last modified: 22-Aug-2001.